In action, Lee's prancing walk, bared teeth and sucked-in breath, his wicked crotch kicks and strobe- fast blows with hands and feet are accompanied by eerie little vocalizations, yelps and growls, and a megawatt glare.īut the most surprising moment comes at a point when Lee is forced to kill, and what sticks with the viewer is not his body in action but an extraordinary slow-motion shot of the emotion playing across his face.Īt another point, Lee tastes the blood from his own wounds.
Its best sequences, and the only real reason for seeing it again, involve Lee's phenomenal physical and emotional presence. "Enter the Dragon" goes far beyond the philosophical, of course. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit," he says, showing his fist, "it hits all by itself."
"When the opponent expands," Lee says, "I contract, and when he contracts, I expand. It is the same as the lesson in the film.
DVD of "Enter the Dragon," also just released in a 25th anniversary edition, contains an interview in which he briefly expresses his philosophy of combat. In this movie John Saxon's character bites the leg of Bolo Yeung during a duel.Before the opening credits, in a restored scene not included in earlier releases, Lee gives a lesson in martial arts to a novice, and the words are not the scriptwriter's. In Fist of Fury, Lee's character bites the leg of a Russian fighter during a duel. We also have Bolo Yeung before he became the usual villain in JCVD's movies. Both these movies inspired various martial arts n action movies. Enter the Dragon along with Game of Death were the foundation for fighting games. We have Sammo Hung in an uncredited role in the opening fight scene against Lee at the start of the film. The villain Han is not intimidating or a convincing fighter yet he is able to take down the character of Jim Kelly.
This one is not as intense as Fist of Fury but very entertaining. The movie has amazing star cast, few top notch martial arts fight scenes n wonderful music score. Lee's assignment is to gather evidence that will prove Han's involvement in drug trafficking and prostitution. This time Lee plays a martial arts instructor who is approached by the British Intelligence and is persuaded to attend a martial arts tournament on a private island owned by Han, a crime lord. Then again in the early 2k on a dvd which I own. I first saw this in the late 80s on a vhs.
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